the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Acts 7:1
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“Are these things true?” the high priest asked.
Then said the high Priest, Are these things so?
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Now the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
The high priest said to Stephen, "Are these things true?"
Now the high priest asked [Stephen], "Are these charges true?"
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these charges true?"
The high priest asked Stephen, "Are they telling the truth about you?"
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
The high priest said to Stephen, "Is all this true?"
Then sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so?
THEN the high priest asked Stephen, Are these things so?
The High Priest asked Stephen, "Is this true?"
And the high priest said, "Is it so concerning these things?"
And the high priest said, Tell me then if you thus hold these things?
And the high priest said, Are these things so?
Then the high priest said, Are these things true?
The Kohen Gadol said, "Are these things so?"
Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"
And the chief of the priests demanded if these (things) were so ?
And the high priest asked him: Are these things so?
Then said ye chiefe priest: Are these thynges so?
And the high priest said, Are these things so?
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Then said the high priest, Are these things so? And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken.
Then the High Priest asked him, "Are these statements true?"
And the prynce of prestis seide to Steuene, Whethir these thingis han hem so?
And the high priest said, Are these things so?
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
Then the high priest said, "Are these things true?"
Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these accusations true?"
The head religious leader asked Stephen, "Are these things true?"
Then the high priest asked him, "Are these things so?"
And the High-priest said - Are these things, so?
Then the high priest said: Are these things so?
And the high priest said, "Is this so?"
Then sayde ye chefe prest: is it even so?
And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?'
Then sayde the hye prest: Is it eue so?
Then said the high priest, are these things so?
Then the Chief Priest said, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Then the head preacher asked Steve, "What have you got to say about this?"
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Are: Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14, Matthew 26:61, Matthew 26:62, Mark 14:58-60, John 18:19-21, John 18:33-35
Reciprocal: Exodus 3:20 - General Acts 6:5 - Stephen 1 Timothy 3:13 - great
Cross-References
But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai . Haftarah B'resheet: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 42:5–43:10 (A); 42:5–21 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'resheet: Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1–17; 19:3–9; Mark 10:1–12; Luke 3:23–38; Yochanan (John) 1:1–18; 1 Corinthians 6:15–20; 15:35–58; Romans 5:12–21; Ephesians 5:21–32; Colossians 1:14–17; 1 Timothy 2:11–15; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 1:1–3; 3:7–4:11; 11:1–7; 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 3:3–14; Revelation 21:1–5; 22:1–5 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God.
(ii) Adonai said to Noach, "Come into the ark, you and all your household; for I have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me.
For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the earth."
Noach did all that Adonai ordered him to do.
Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.
Noach went into the ark with his sons, his wife and his sons' wives, because of the floodwaters.
Of clean animals, of animals that are not clean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as God had ordered Noach.
After seven days the water flooded the earth.
On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then said the high priest,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "to him"; that is, to Stephen; for to him he addressed himself: or he "asked him", as the Syriac version renders it; he put the following question to him:
are these things so? is it true what they say, that thou hast spoken blasphemous words against the temple, and the law, and hast said that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the one, and change the other? what hast thou to say for thyself, and in thine own defence? this high priest was either Annas, or rather Caiaphas;
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then said the high priest - See the notes on Matthew 2:4. In this case the high priest seems to have presided in the council.
Are these things so? - To wit, the charge alleged against him of blasphemy against Moses and the temple, Acts 6:13-14.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER VII.
Stephen, being permitted to answer for himself relative to the
charge of blasphemy brought against him by his accusers, gives
a circumstantial relation of the call of Abraham, when he dwelt
in Mesopotamia, in Charran, c., 1-8.
The history of Jacob and Joseph, 9-17.
The persecution of their fathers in Egypt, 18, 19.
The history of Moses and his acts till the exodus from Egypt,
20-37.
The rebellion and idolatry of the Israelites in the wilderness,
38-43.
The erection of the tabernacle of witness, which continued till
the time of David, 44-46.
Of the temple built by Solomon for that God who cannot be
confined to temples built by hands, 47-50.
Being probably interrupted in the prosecution of his discourse,
he urges home the charge of rebellion against God, persecution
of his prophets, the murder of Christ, and neglect of their own
law against them, 51-53.
They are filled with indignation, and proceed to violence, 54.
He sees the glory of God, and Christ at the right hand of the
Father and declares the glorious vision, 55, 56.
They rush upon him, drag him out of the city, and stone him,
57, 58.
He involves the Lord Jesus, prays for his murderers, and
expires, 59, 60.
NOTES ON CHAP. VII.
Verse Acts 7:1. Are these things so? — Hast thou predicted the destruction of the temple? And hast thou said that Jesus of Nazareth shall change our customs, abolish our religious rites and temple service? Hast thou spoken these blasphemous things against Moses, and against God? Here was some colour of justice; for Stephen was permitted to defend himself. And, in order to do this he thought it best to enter into a detail of their history from the commencement of their nation; and thus show how kindly God had dealt with them, and how ungraciously they and their fathers had requited Him. And all this naturally led him to the conclusion, that God could no longer bear with a people the cup of whose iniquity had been long overflowing; and therefore they might expect to find wrath, without mixture of mercy.
But how could St. Luke get all this circumstantial account? 1. He might have been present, and heard the whole; or, more probably, he had the account from St. Paul, whose companion he was, and who was certainly present when St. Stephen was judged and stoned, for he was consenting to his death, and kept the clothes of them who stoned him. See Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 22:20.
